Alumni Conversations
Tuesday, August 18 at 10 am EDT
Register through Engage (listed under Workshops)
A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants.
NOTE: Registration closes 2 hours prior to the event.
Adam Nourafchan ‘16 MSRED, associate at Terra Capital Partners, will discuss a new fund they are raising focused on distressed real estate resulting from the COVID pandemic and answer questions about the general real estate private equity industry. Facilitated by Vera Tay '20 MSRED.
Led by CEO Vik Uppal '13 MSRED, Terra Capital Partners is a real estate asset manager that invests private equity and debt into undercapitalized or transitional real assets.
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**THANK YOU**
This week’s Alumni Conversationalists encouraged participants to find opportunities to be fearless during this time of historic upheaval:
- Let your passions be known
- Acknowledge your lived experience and its value in informing your work
- Live in gratitude and think of how you can use your skills to help others
We appreciate Katie Shima, AIA ‘09 M.Arch, Director of Design, and Brandon Cook '00 M.Arch, Senior Project Manager, of SITU—with surprise guest speaker Gauri Bahuguna '20 M.Arch, who joined their research team in July—for sharing their new projects with recent graduates and current students. We also had the privilege of being guided through the work of Zarith Pineda '17 MSAUD of Territorial Empathy and Rachel Barnard '11 MSAAD of Young New Yorkers, both founders and CEO’s of their own socially engaged practices.
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Tuesday, August 18
Time varies
Tuesday Talks connects the Class of 2020 to alumni professionals for informal 1:1 conversations. Registration will open at noon EDT on Monday, August 17.
Preview a list of alumni mentors for next week.
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MSAUD Thesis on Archinect
A research project initiated by MSAUD graduates Einat Lubliner, Sushmita Shekar, Hatem Alkhathlan, and Chris Zheng titled Post Retail Apocalypse was recently featured on Archinect’s summer series of features highlighting the work of thesis students for the Class of 2020. |
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Research & Development Fellow
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is currently accepting applications for a two year research fellow to assist the director of R&D in all areas of responsibilities. MoMA Research & Development department connects MoMA’s curatorial research, exhibitions, and programs with the broad and urgent themes that are of public and universal concern.
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Programme Analyst, Research and Data
UN Women
The Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division (PPID) provides global support to UN Women offices at Headquarters. Under the supervision of the Research Specialist, Research and Data Section, the Programme Analyst is expected to provide the Research and Data team with research and coordination support.
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Intern
BJH Advisors
The analyst intern will support BJH Advisors senior staff with research, analysis, data synthesis, mapping, and administrative tasks for real estate market analysis, economic impacts, financial feasibility, and other services. The candidate will gain exposure to a myriad of public and private development projects happening in real time in New York City and the surrounding region.
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Assistant Architect
SPACEWORK Architects
SPACEWORKS Architects has fulfilled projects of architecture, interior and landscapes design; The firm believes that every project as an opportunity to discover, research and propose the design strategy, persevere the rigor , creative and professional comprehension of design, keep developing and improving our work. They are currently seeking an assistant architect with good design sensibility and who is well-organized and responsible.
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In Review:
Resume & Portfolio Workshop
The AIANY Women in Architecture Committee and FXWomen recently hosted a webinar featuring pointers and techniques for resume and portfolio development. Watch the recorded session.
Interested participants can request a one-on-one, 30-minute review session through the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee.
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Seed Grant
Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
Deadline: August 15
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures. Social or environmental ventures are defined as those working to solve a social or environmental problem.
Creative Residency Community Fund
Adobe
Deadline: September 1
The motto of the Creative Residency program is “Create. Share. Activate. Empower.” As always, the creators selected will be passionate about creating personally fulfilling work, sharing their journeys, and activating fellow creatives to craft the careers they want by empowering them with knowledge. If your project is selected for funding, you’ll receive a grant for anywhere between US$500 and US$5,000, with the amount to be determined by the selection committee.
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ARCHITECTURAL
Artrepreneur
Deadline: August 23
This open call is curated by Elizabeth Winnel and Matt Rota for Artrepreneur, a platform that helps creatives succeed with tools, resources, and insights. Each winner will receive a $500 Prize and promotion through Artrepreneur social media channels.
Call for Papers
Diseña
Deadline: November 2
The 19th edition of Diseña will look into ways of interfacing online visual culture. It will shed light on different ways of reorganizing, reshaping, and republishing visual materials shared online, and prepare them for further analysis and interpretation. It will also focus on the role that algorithmic practices can play in such research efforts: which kinds of collaborations between humans and machines can we envision to better grasp the dynamics of today’s visual culture?
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Resilience Design Corps
Columbia University’s Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes and the Resilient Cities Catalyst are mobilizing creative people to collaborate with community-based organizations to remake the public realm. The Resilience Design Corps intends to be an evolving bench of artists, designers, planners, technologists, engineers, graphic designers and others who have skills and are willing to volunteer their time and talent to support community-based projects.
Find out how to get involved.
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Documenting COVID-19
at Columbia
The University Archives is inviting faculty, students, alumni, librarians and staff of the university to help us document this crisis. They would like to hear how the Columbia community is experiencing and reflecting on these tumultuous times.
Click here to contribute to a diverse set of voices. Historians of the future will want to know how we spent our days.
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CU there! Multicultural Night
Thursday, August 20 at 6 p.m. EDT
Celebrate the many diverse communities of Columbians with Alumni representatives from many of the CAA Shared Interest Groups (SIGs).
If you missed any previous events, you can watch them here. |
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